Most people watching their hair thin assume the choice is a transplant or nothing. The treatment that actually suits many of them uses no surgery at all, and the active ingredient is already in your arm.
PRP stands for platelet-rich plasma, and it does exactly what the name says: your own platelets, concentrated and put to work where your hair is thinning. Here's how it works and who it's genuinely for.
Your platelets, promoted
Platelets are the part of your blood in charge of repair. A PRP session takes a small sample of your blood, concentrates those platelets, and returns them to your scalp, right where the hair is thinning.
Why your own platelets? Because repair is what they already do all day. Delivered in concentration to the follicles that are winding down, they encourage the hair you still have, and that word still matters, because PRP works with living follicles rather than replacing lost ones.
The sessions are painless, and there's no downtime: you carry on with your day afterwards.
Who PRP genuinely suits
This is where honest advice earns its keep. PRP is particularly effective for diffuse thinning, the all-over kind where hair loses density without a clear bald patch, for early recession, and for the pattern of hair loss most common in women.
Notice what those have in common: in each one, the follicles are still there and still working, just less enthusiastically than before. That's exactly the situation where encouragement beats relocation, which is why a transplant is often the wrong tool for these patterns and PRP is the evidence-backed one.
If your loss has settled into defined bald areas with strong hair at the back and sides, that's transplant territory instead, and the same consultation will tell you so.
What it costs, and how to find out which you are
PRP is £250 a session, and its sister treatment, photodiode therapy, which treats thinning with light over a course, is £500 for six sessions. Both are published here for the same reason all our prices are: a figure you only hear in a meeting isn't one you can compare.
Whether PRP is your treatment comes down to your pattern and your follicles, and that's a question for the free consultation: around thirty minutes on video, any evening from 6pm, with the team that would treat you. If the honest answer is that you don't need anything yet, that's the answer you'll get.